Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow Hands Stupid Reporter His Stupid Ass

Okay, so this happened! The producers of Girls were doing a Q&A panel for the Television Critics Association, when an unidentified male reporter stood up and unfortunately asked this question. (From EW and Today.)

"I don’t get the purpose of all the nudity on the show — by [Dunham] in particularly. I feel like I’m walking into a trap where you go, ‘Nobody complains about all the nudity on Game of Thrones,’ but I get why they do it. They do it to be salacious and titillate people. And your character is often nude at random times for no reason."

Exec producer Judd Apatow's response:

“That was a very clumsily stated question that’s offensive on it’s face, and you should read it and discuss it with other people how you did that,” Apatow said, speaking to the reporter who asked the question. “It’s very offensive.”

Creator Lena Dunham's response:

“[The nudity is] a realistic expression of what it’s like to be alive. But I totally get it. If you’re not into me, that’s your problem and you’re going to have to work that out with professionals.”

Apatow continues:

"Do you have a girlfriend?" executive producer Judd Apatow asked the reporter, who responded that he did.

"Does she like you? " Apatow replied. "Let’s see how she likes you when you quote that with your question, just write the whole question as you stated it. Then tell me how it goes tonight."

Other questions were asked, but later EP Jenni Konner interrupted her own response to circle back around to the offending reporter:

“I literally was spacing out because I’m in such a rage spiral about that guy,” she said pointing to the question-asker. “I was just looking at him looking at him and going into this rage [over] this idea that you would talk to a woman like that and accuse a woman of showing her body too much. The idea it just makes me sort of sick.”

So far the reporter is unidentified... but I sincerely doubt the judge and jury of the internet will allow that to be the case for long.